Dow (4-0 overall and in the SVL) is at the Bay City Western Invitational Friday.

Lawson leads Meridian girls to

5th place

LAKEVIEW - Erica Lawson won the 100-meter and 300-meter hurdles Friday to lead the Meridian girls' track team to fifth place out of nine teams at the Lakeview Wildcat Invitational.

Chippewa Hills won the meet with 140.33 points. Meridian and Beal City both scored 61.

Lawson won the 100 hurdles in 16.26 seconds and the 300 hurdles in 48.76.

Lawson also took second in the 100 dash (13.42), while Meridian's Kayla Stieg took second in the 400 (1:05.66), Nissa Looper took third in the 800 (2:39.39) and third in the long jump (14 feet, 10 1/2 inches), and Sam Lange took fifth in the discus (88-3 1/2).

In relays, Meridian took sixth in the 400 (Alicia Burford/Miranda Lawson/Danielle Collins/Amanda Heilig, 57.48), second in the 1600 (Erica Lawson/Stieg/Emily Cook/Looper, 4:26.63), and fifth in the 3200 (Looper/Cook/Rebecca Davis/Stieg, 11:02.81).